Beginning tomorrow, from May 15th to May 30th 2018 (03/15/2018 – 05/30/2018), Azure Web Apps will be rolling out stricter protocol enforcement world-wide. This will impact clients that are using TLS 1.0 without an SNI header. The only resolution is to upgrade the clients to use TLS 1.2 (preferable), TLS 1.1, or TLS 1.0 with an SNI header. Overview Azure Web….
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Up until now, we have been providing a default state service for bots built using either the Node.js or .NET SDK’s. The state service is used to store and retrieve user and conversation data within the context of a conversation. Over the last several months as the bot framework has grown, we’ve been encouraging users to implement their own state….
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On July 25, Bot Framework services experienced an outage that affected many bots. This outage has been resolved and details are included below. The root cause of the outage was due to the unexpected expiration of a Bot Framework registration within Azure Active Directory. The outage lasted approximately 3 hours and 10 minutes. Scope of impact This outage affected bots….
On July 18th and 19th, the Bot Framework service experienced degraded service in 2 of our datacenters. The service has been restored to full health and details are included below. The root cause was a misconfigured maintenance job that resulted in high CPU across several servers and datacenters. Scope of Impact The maintenance job misconfiguration affected certain Azure Web Apps,….
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